But big trouble has come to Little Egypt, causing the kind of jitters more often associated with the cigarette habit.
The announcement is causing the kind of excitement among rare-book collectors and scholars that the Super Bowl is generating among sports fans.
"The government of Israel is calibrating a response that will affect the calculations of the Palestinian Authority without causing the kind of international intervention that Arafat seeks," said Dore Gold, an adviser to Mr. Sharon.
Not a single major oil refinery has been built in the United States in nearly a generation, causing the kind of bottlenecks that lead to sudden spikes in the price of gasoline.
But no one -- least of all government officials, who must juggle competing priorities -- knows exactly how to achieve that goal without causing the kind of economic collapse now seen in Zimbabwe.
"There's not much indication that N.C.L.B. is causing the kind of change we were all hoping for," said G. Gage Kingsbury, a testing expert who is a director at the Northwest Evaluation Association in Portland.
Between 1990 and 1998, twenty-eight Chinese swimmers tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, causing the kind of public scandal that has cast a dark and enduring shadow on the team.
However, it was unclear from this latest study whether sleeping for more than eight hours was actually causing the kind of cardiovascular problems that can lead to stroke, or whether it was merely an indicator or symptom of underlying conditions.
These include making the battery cells more resistant to shocks to keep excess heat from spreading from one cell to another, causing the kind of thermal runaway that occurred in the two recent events.
It was widely interpreted as a blot on Mr. da Silva's otherwise enviable legacy, causing the kind of friction with Washington that Brazil's current president, Dilma Rousseff, might try to avoid.
